Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MOON PONY by Charlotte Pomerantz, illustrated by Loretta Trezzo (Young Scott Books; $3.95). One of the best of an increasing number of picture books that depart from the usual white, middle-class background. This one is about a Negro child's dream of a ride to the moon on a white pony. It preserves the delicate balance between the real world and the imaginary...
...Zeralda, who is such a good cook that he swiftly switches to pompano, roast chicken and other goodies. Though it may sound scary to adults, it is the kind of story that is invariably amusing to children and the youngsters will love the menacing drawings. Also recommended: Ungerer's Moon Man, a story of the man in the moon's brief visit to earth...
...signal from earth it fired its three vernier engines, rose ten feet from the surface and then landed again, eight feet from its original site. It was the first rocket-powered takeoff from the face of the moon...
Before it became a space-age swan, however, Surveyor had a long history as an ugly duckling. The seven-space craft program, originally expected to cost about $50 million and scheduled to begin shooting for the moon in August 1963, will eventually cost $350 million, and did not get off the ground until May 1966. Outraged by delays and rising costs, a congressional subcommittee in 1965 called Surveyor "one of the least orderly and most poorly executed of NASA projects...
...search takes them not only past such familiar landmarks of the youthful odyssey as alienation and sex, but into symbolic realms of the unconscious-eerie night worlds filled with throbbing rhythms, shivery metallic tones, unsettling images. Swim to the moon, they sing, and "penetrate the evening that the city sleeps to hide...